Don't re-elect President Obama

As he campaigns for re-election, President Obama says that he wants to improve conditions for the middle class.

Yet his government is trying to shut down the generation of electricity with coal thereby destroying tens of thousands of U.S. jobs. And by prolonging the moratorium on drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico for six months, and by delaying approvals to drill for oil on government leases in the coastal waters of the U.S., and by delaying the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, he is sacrificing an additional hundreds of thousands of oil field and construction jobs.

The Dodd-Frank Bill allows the government to prevent small banks from lending money to small businesses to start up or expand old businesses. Obamacare raises the cost of medical care and forces employers of 50 or more employees to either pay a penalty or supply medical insurance to their employees - thereby raising the cost of doing business and thereby preventing them from employing more or causing them to lay off employees to stay in business.

It has been reported that 23 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed. It also has been estimated that if Obama succeeds in raising the taxes of the estimated 1 million small businesses that report yearly incomes of $250,000 or more, it will cost the U.S. an additional 300,000 to 2.9 million jobs.

A recent presidential order will allow 1.7 million undocumented aliens to stay in the U.S. and compete with native-born Americans for the currently available jobs.

It looks to me that Obama wants to improve conditions for the middle class by giving them welfare assistance.

Can the rest of us afford it?

Let's not re-elect Obama.

J. Fred Doornbos

Iowa City

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Don't re-elect President Obama

As he campaigns for re-election, President Obama says that he wants to improve conditions for the middle class. Yet his government is trying to shut down the generation of electricity with coal